The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-01

falsity. The accused have with counter
felt indignation branded the charges
as Mormon libels, the invention of
devilish Mormons. But what are the
facts in the case2
Before them is a Territory with a
population which at the end of this
decade, will number quarter of a
million. There are now over 1000
Office holders, with salaries ranging
from nominal to respectable sums. Let
US gaze at the pickings in the city and
county of Salt Lake for a moment and
see whether the place is not worth the
seeking.
The probate judge, county clerk,
county collector, county attorney, and
the selectmen, are in receipt of public
incomes, which, under the moderate
and economical methods of the Nor
mons, are decidedly worth the having.
But in the train of these offices follows
long string of subordinate employees
and officers. In the city are the mayor,
recorder, treasurer, assessor and coliec-
tor, watermaster, chief of fire depart
ment, chief of police, police justice,
street supervisor, and numerous interior
officers such as fremen and policemen,
furnishing honorable employment and
good salaries to dozens of men. Are
not these offices worth an effort2 But
it is not to be forgotten, and this cuts
an important figure, that city plumb
ing, gas and waterworks contracts, are
awarded by the city government, and
naturally go into the hands OF friends.
Nor is it to be lost sight of that i'm
mense improvements in the city, such
as the introduction of pavements and
sewerage, are things of the near future.
The economical administration of city
affairs and the honest execution of
contracts give plenty of scope for en-
ployment and the earning of margins;
but we may be sure that extravaganza
in the number and salary of officials,
profiigacy in the scale of public i'm
provements, and jobs in the admins
tration of affairs, would be concomi-
tants of Liberal rule,
We know not what brilliant schemes
the revolutionists may have concocted
to ride into statehood, and thus to hold
high carnival over a helpless people.
These being the aims of the political
faction, it became important to hatch
scheme for accomplishing the desired
object. They found affairs just to their
liking. The Mormons, although in
hopeless majority, were, by reason of
certain peculiar tenets, unpopular.
There had been certain events in their
history, which, imperfectly understood
abroad, could be distorted into damag-
Ing arguments. Utah is Territory,
and therefore under an unrepublican
outgrowth OF policy, without the right
to a voice in its own affairs, and en-
tirely dependent upon the sweet will of
distant Congress. Then began sys-
tematic abuse and vili6cation of the
Mormon people, with the uHholy object
of securing minority rule.
The laws of Utah have always been
equable; there has been nothing to pre-
vent the Liberals from getting offices
but voters to elect them.
The method adopted by this precious
clique, we maintain, has retarded the
growth of Utah, and is opposed to the
desires and interests of nineteen
twentieths of the Gentiles. Their
method has been to fasten the Noun
tain Meadows horror and numerous
assassinations upon an innocent people;
to brand the Mormons as disloyal and
revolutionary. They have attributed,
time and again, Gentle safety to the
overawing presence of troops at Fort
Douglas, and have instigated and echoed
the suicidal request of governors for
the sending of more troops. They
have asserted that the life of an OBJ
noxious Gentle is always in danger
from the midnight assassin. They have
represented crime as rife and i'm
morality as prevalent.
In the light of such statements, who,
we would ask Utah Gentiles, are re-
sponsible that the exhaustless resources
of Utah have not even been prospected,
and that our city remains village?
Fancy how the logic strikes the ear of
the eastern capitalist, "Come out and
set up iron works." or LOAN us
$50, 900 on Utah securities, for the Nor
mons are going to revolt before long"
Or. "Come out to Utah for your health,
but have an eye on the DANTE"
Under such circumstances, who is to
blame that 2 per cent. in New York is
| preferred to 10 in Salt Lake or that